The Sixth Section of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has imposed a sentence of ten years in prison and the payment of compensation of 100,000 euros to a British citizen whom a jury found guilty of the death of a man with whom he lived in Costa del Silencio in Arona.
At the beginning of last July, the People’s Court concluded that RC is guilty of the crime of homicide after ending the life of the victim in February 2020 and also unanimously rejected all the mitigating factors raised by the defense.
Specifically, to lessen his sentence, once the convicted man assumed he was guilty, his lawyer argued that he acted in self-defense, under the influence of alcohol, collaborated with the law and also tried to revive the deceased.
The people’s court does not believe it is proven that he only tried to react to the attack, since there is hardly any trace of his blood on the golf club used to attack him and the experts affirmed that the defendant used a great deal of force to carry out the crime.
For this reason, it was not accepted that he tried to resuscitate him, since no evidence has been provided that he did so, but rather he limited himself to taking the body wrapped in a sheet to another room where it was found several days later.
The court did not accept that he acted under the influence of alcohol and drugs since the convicted person remembers all the details of what happened, despite alleging that during those dates he had relapsed into his addictions and that he consumed a large amount of narcotic substances.
Regarding the fact that he collaborated with justice, the members of the Jury recall that in reality he fled the island for which he had to be arrested in England from where he would be extradited and that the confession he made in writing was drafted when he was imprisoned in Madrid.
After the conviction, he announced that he would appeal the ruling that has now been notified to the parties on Tuesday.
